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Re:UK MP speech about freedoms censored by YouTube by carnitine on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:12AM (#28862362)
They definitely did. Chattel slavery for example was never legal in the British isles, but was permitted in the colonies.
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Re:UK MP speech about freedoms censored by YouTube by falkrr on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:52AM (#28863059)
It does not help if there was no legislation but 10% of the (white) population were slaves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain#Norman_Engl...

I'm also not sure if being a white coal miner in 1870 in Britain would have been much better than the jobs in the colonies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold,_Flintshire#The_Mold_Riot

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